From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
To: Linda Walsh <cygwin@tlinx.org>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Using cp converts windows junctions to a cywin symlink; a security-config override
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2015 23:50:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <15510235307.20151103023855@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5637F28A.40104@tlinx.org>
Greetings, Linda Walsh!
>> > I was copying a directory of files, some of which were windows junctions.
>> > These got converted to a cygwin symlink. Although I am impressed that there
>> > are such a thing for those OSs/drives that do not support such things, for those
>> > that do, I think it would be good to keep the copy a junction. Otherwise,
>> > things can get messy.
>> > Can this be corrected?
> ---
> (BTW -- you do know about the 'winsymlinks:native' setting in the
> CYGWIN environment variable? It might be of some use.)
> Andrey wrote:
>> Unfortunately, even on systems, that do support symlinks functionality,
>> it is restricted by UAC and not easily unlocked.
> ---
> Actually that's control by Windows group policy.
Yes, I know. But when UAC is enabled, it overriding this policy setting.
That's why I said that you need either admin console, or UAC turned off.
> It's alot like whether not 'users' can control 'mounts' on linux.
> It can be allowed, but doing so categorically might not be considered
> wise.
Microsoft does not follow common logic.
>> You'd need an admin shell or a user profile with UAC turned off and
>> permissions correctly configured to exploit native symlinks.
> ---
> Or the system administrator would have to enable user-control of local
> symlinks.
...
> On my windows machine, unprivileged users are able to create all 4 types
> of symbolic links.
Do you have UAC enabled?
>> And Cygwin does not support creation of directory junctions to the best
>> of my knowledge. :(
> ---
> Neither does linux support creation of user-controlled mounts.
However, Windows allows creation of directory junctions just fine.
But blocks Symlinks.
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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Tuesday, November 3, 2015 02:34:22
Sorry for my terrible english...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-02 23:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-02 18:57 Using cp converts windows junctions to a cywin symlink Adrian H
2015-11-02 20:05 ` Andrey Repin
2015-11-02 23:32 ` Using cp converts windows junctions to a cywin symlink; a security-config override Linda Walsh
2015-11-02 23:50 ` Andrey Repin [this message]
2015-11-03 13:20 ` Using cp converts windows junctions to a cywin symlink Corinna Vinschen
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